# adobar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.ðuˈβa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.ðoˈba]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.ðoˈbaɾ]

### Verb

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobí, past participle adobat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
* (transitive) to prepare; set up
* (transitive, cooking) to marinate
* (transitive) to do up (put in a good state)
* (transitive) to fertilize (to make the soil fertile by adding nutrients)

#### Derived terms

* adob
* adobador
* adobament
* adobassar
* adobatge
* adober

### Further reading

* “adobar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “adobar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “adobar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “adobar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

13th century. From Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aðoˈβaɾ/

### Verb

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobei, past participle adobado)
* (archaic) to prepare; to set up
* (archaic) to repair
* (cooking) to marinate; to season

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* adobeiro
* adobiar
* adobío
* adobo

### References

* "adubar" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adub”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adob”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “adobar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “adobar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “adobar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “adobar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “adobar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Old French adober (“to knight, equip”), from Germanic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /adoˈbaɾ/ [a.ð̞oˈβ̞aɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧do‧bar

### Verb

adobar (first-person singular present adobo, first-person singular preterite adobé, past participle adobado)
* (transitive) to marinate

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* adobo

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “adobar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “adobar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10